Fears for growing South Sudan refugee camp near the border

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Getting aid to the 65,000 refugees who call Yida home is increasingly difficultMike Goldwater

Jim Mclean, Yida Refugee Camp

Last updated at 12:01AM, November 26 2012

The simple huts sprawl endlessly on through the red dust and trees, homes to
65,000 refugees faced with an agonising choice of returning to the war from
which they fled, moving on, or being marooned in one of Africa’s remotest
corners.

International donors, including Britain, want Yida relocated to avoid an
openended financial commitment to the fast-growing camp, which is the most
expensive in the continent to supply. But the refugees want to stay, and
with hundreds arriving every day and no obvious alternative locations
nearby, Yida is one of the world’s most pressing and complex humanitarian
dilemmas.